deep-dive-discussion

[zenith ember]

Its not bad until that funny angled bit of floor sends you to karl at mach speed in a coin flip

Which is still rare but yeah, not cool

[lusty oar]

man, bosco is so dependable

[lusty oar]

i finished the regular DD without resupplying

thanks to bosco lol

[nova tundra]

I was peacefully mining nitra until…

[tiny marten]

anyone interested in doing edd? [eu]

[muted turtle]

Okay glyphid spy

[tiny marten]

how was edd this week?

doable solo?

[nova tundra]

Was pretty easy

So probably doable solo

[sinful pewter]

Ok Rival spy

[raven carbon]

Very easy

Pump positions are also easy so you can go solo any class

Don't necessarily need a driller

[nocturne thorn]

At what point would you say someone is "ready" to join a deep dive? I've cleared a few haz 5 missions, but I'm not really sure at what point I should have the confidence to join a deep dive and not be dead weight.

[novel shale]

deep dives are haz 3 to 3.5, elite deep dives are haz 4.5 to 5.5
if you can beat haz5 you'll have no problems in edds

[nocturne thorn]

Oh deep dives are only haz 3? idk why I just assumed they were haz 5. That doesn't sound too bad, guess I'll take a crack at it some time this cycle

[next pebble]

No. In-game interactions are unmoderated and we don't allow naming and shaming due to the ease with which a person can change their name to someone else's. @late dirge

[late dirge]

fair point.

actually, stupid question:
"unmoderated" means cheats are allowed? not complaining, just asking. sounds chill.

[next pebble]

It means there's nothing being done to manage the use of cheats in the game. No anticheat, reporting system, etc. Hosts are given the tools to remove cheaters from their games by kicking them, non hosts have the option of leaving lobbies with cheaters, and everyone can revert saves to an earlier file through the escape menu in the event a cheater causes issues.

[sullen mica]

anyone tryna run the EDD w scout ?

[solemn roost]

deep dive aus?

[warped wolf]

EDD AUS?

[sly basin]

a dread spawned as our first swarm on the first mission of the EDD
everything went downhill afterwards

[jolly wing]

The dwarves doing EDD in australia

Wonder how long they'll last

[sullen mica]

Probably a while

Is drg not just Australia simulator

[nova tundra]

You arent allowed to blow up spiders with c4 irl probably

[manic pivot]

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We are hearing rumors that some dwarves are still not done with this weeks Deep Dives!
We want to remind you that there's only half a week left until our scanners pick up new missions!
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[flint widget]

Pretty easy EDD this week.

you can do the third stage quite quickly

[ocean solstice]

Should i try my first deep dive tomorrow

[zenith ember]

highly recommend to try both, they are easy this week

[vague lantern]

ye the deep dives are pretty simple this week

even the edd is pretty straightforward for once

very little complex terrain

[silver shore]

solo-able?

haven't done an edd solo, but would like to try it

[raven carbon]

Yes

No major hurdles, any class will work

But if it is your first edd then some preparation won't hurt

You need something to deal with swarmageddon in stage one and the dreadnought in stage two

Build something capable of both

[mossy patio]

very easy EDD

i soloed scout just a few minutes ago and plan to upload on to youtube

not swarmaggedon its parasites

for EDD stage 1

[stray elbow]

Low O2

[nova tundra]

Low O2 is very easy if you just tell everyone to move together

[ivory marten]

Hey.

Question

What kind of speedrunning tricks do ya'll use?

Any weird shiz?

[maiden matrix]

Oh man I got one more day to finish the Edd

Godspeed to me frfr

[raven carbon]

Having a good team is the biggest requirement

[ivory marten]

Anything else..?

[burnt sandal]

maybe @small pecan can share his wisdom ?

[prime shore]

That's a big if

[nova tundra]

i mean i just told the team that we should stick together and we did

[sudden lantern]

Anyone doing an elite deep dive?

[mental rampart]

I just move at a steady pace with Molly in low 02. The Scout will learn to not rush when he starts dying lol

[marble crag]

Hello lads, anyone got an idea of how difficult this weeks deep dives are? Need to know before I jump into them carelessly

[fervent heath]

Very easy and straightforward

[raven carbon]

Kiting enemies is preferable over fighting. Fight only when they're blocking objectives. Keep an eye on nitra and mine only what you need. Molly management is also important so the team needs to ensure molly isn't being needlessly pulled and someone is just waiting for molly. Throwing heavy objectives like eggs at a central spot is faster than depositing one by one. Combine swarms wherever possible to avoid obstacles and try to have those at the end of the mission so you can just leave.

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
Planet scanning is now booting up, 24 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[nova tundra]

super easy unless your team is actively throwing

[final urchin]

so close yet so far, failed at the second stage

my build wasn't good enough

[lost wren]

Question

Are Deep Dives considered missions?

Mostly wondering for the 100 Solo missions achivement

[eager atlas]

I'm going to say no, but I'm not sure

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
Planet scanning is still in progress, 12 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives will be available in one hour!
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[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives are now available!
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[zenith ember]

No

IS first mission

[drifting tinsel]

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2024 November 07 to 2024 November 14 (Week 268)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1731582000:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Glacial Strata | Code Name: Uncovered Let-Down
Stage 1: 3 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + Liquid Morkite Well | Blood Sugar Duck and Cover
Stage 2: 2 Dreadnoughts (Hiveguard & Twins) + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | Shield Disruption
Stage 3: 6 Eggs + 150 Morkite | No Mutator

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Crystalline Caverns | Code Name: Foggy Split
Stage 1: Industrial Sabotage + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | Mactera Plague
Stage 2: 6 Eggs + Hiveguard | Rich Atmosphere Elite Threat
Stage 3: Escort Duty + 2 Resonance Crystals | Duck and Cover

[fresh robin]

Escort Duty Duck and Cover

Hhahaha

That's gonna be tough

[zenith ember]

i got mactera plague instead of swarmaggedon for EDD stage 1

[drifting tinsel]

oh that's on me, i click too fast sometimes (；・∀・) ty

[zenith ember]

nah, should thank you for doing this weekly

edd stage 3 has jet boots (unless i was in a modded room), you will need it

hard

[nova tundra]

Edd was pretty easy

Theres just so much nitra

[zenith ember]

Your drop pod isnt in space for 3rd stage?

[nova tundra]

It is but there was jetboots in first or second room

[zenith ember]

ah ok

my engi has some kind of bug that kills him if he uses jet boots somehow

[final urchin]

Do yall do DDs solo or?

[zenith ember]

random team

[nova tundra]

Always in random team

[final urchin]

okay

[long matrix]

oh noo

edd ||escort|| as solo scout...

i'd be less worried if it weren't ACID SPITTER SPAM

JESUS FCK

yeah this will be impossible without aoe

what is with the acid spitter spawning conditions that makes it so they never spawn during kursite but make up 90% of duck & cover warnings by volume

[final urchin]

it feels like it replaced all the grunts into spitters

[fresh robin]

escort duty duck and cover will always be super tough without some aoe weapon

is a Bullet Hell + Hellfire combo good for this EDD?

[long matrix]

yes

hellfire idk

depends if you rely on coilfear (which won't do much against spitter spam)

personally went by fine on 32113 BulH & my current BRT (13231 composite)
any BH should work, probably BB AC too. Not saying hurricane since you have high ceilings

actually necrotherm cat coilgun should work swell

[golden radish]

Duck and cover curse is back.

[raven carbon]

The edd looks like a drag

Sabotage and escort

Too long

[raven carbon]

It's a nightmare to see the ceiling on duck and cover

Especially 5++

[wraith shard]

This EDD was relatively easy despite playing with a random greenbeard teammates. Our driller couldn't place the c4 on the caretaker properly so I just destroyed the vents with the EMD myself, they probably thought I was being stupid staying on top of the caretaker haha

[sharp cradle]

Sabotage first is always a blessing

[old widget]

always a good nitra hoard from sabo

[sharp cradle]

Just attempted

Got double dipped 3 times

We still ran out of ammo on Dread

[nova tundra]

I think we did like 5 or 6 resups on sabo alone and still had plenty nitra left for second stage

Probably well over 1k nitra total during the entire edd

[pliant nymph]

RIP, if ur quick enough, you can pickaxe power attack the base of the resupply pod to force it downwards a bit, which will halt the double dipper for a moment.

[vital epoch]

Mild EDD Spoiler this week: MACTERA AND SPITTERS. Bring something that can hit air and ceilings.

Picture of what I mean over in #drg-gallery

[mystic horizon]

bullet hell it is

[inner flint]

mactera and spitters

fuck off

[sharp cradle]

Final room of the last stage has an insanely high ceiling, you get to see all those little red and purple dots crawling on it

Tides of blood-coloured glyphids will cascade behind Dotty as you tear them to shreds before they paint the dozer yellow

Build appropriately dwarves

[cold kindle]

🦆 AND COVER CURSE IS BACK

And brutal

I LOVE BEING COVERED IN ALIEN GOO!

Management really REALLY likes duck and cover

Ebonite outbreak: i'm joke to you?

[meager osprey]

anyone want to hit the elite dive in a few?

[uneven patio]

what an EDD this week, random team of lvl 800+ greybeards and it was a proper challenge, love it and love GSG 🖖

[mystic horizon]

sounds exciting

i should get to it today

[meager osprey]

unbelivablely insane elite dive my fucking god

lost my girl Duretta at the last moment

soms of bitches hawk tuaing all over my Duretta

[tall relic]

This is gonna be my first season 5 EDD

Thinking of going with ice spear cryo + wave cooker

Cryo so I'm not useless during stage 2, ice spear so I can deal with bots/caretaker, and wave cooker built for solo damage for stage 3

Any secondary other than wave cooker seems like a bad choice

Oh the first stage has mactera plague....

Still think that build is my best bet tho

[fresh robin]

finished the EDD

i must say, 2nd stage was a jumpscare

like, 3 stationaries we had to clear

[mystic horizon]

finally stopped slacking off and did the EDD

wasn't as bad as i expected it to be

except on stage 2 where the entire run depended on how well i could kite the swarm

enemies for some reason spawned in the driller's bunky

second i realized that i made a mad dash out

[buoyant gulch]

dude escort duty plus duckncover is absolutely diabolical we predrilled and that didnt help we even had jetboots but when we got dotty to the omoran we were getting smashed and the host ragequit and i dont blame him that aint worth one empty core

like the room is so open and full of crystals making it a nightmare, even after clearing the crystals

duck and cover wouldnt be so bad if they didnt add septics

like we are already fighting and ungodly amount of bugs WE DONT NEED AN ARTILERY BOMBARDMENT RIGHT NOW

[long matrix]

I thought deep dives were supposed to be seeded?

Only the cave generates the same way every time

But the objectives spawn everywhere and there's also different crystal formations

[exotic belfry]

Certain parts of cave gen aren’t entirely based on the seed, so they can vary depending on other factors.

[brittle sand]

What difficult are elite dives on?

Or is it just a separate thing altogether without a set known difficulty like the regular missions

[novel shale]

DDs are haz 3, 3.5, 3.5
EDDs are haz 4.5, 5, 5.5

[granite valley]

This weeks edd is insane

Tried it twice and wiped at the third mission both times

[eager atlas]

escort duck is rough

[fresh robin]

I'd suggest using a loadout PRIMARILY for dealing with a duck and cover, especially since it's an escort duty where you'll be fighting off a lot of those ranged bugs high on the ceiling
if you're gunner I suggest something like Bullet Hell to deal well with those ceiling bugs, of course bring Tactical Leadburster, for Secondary just use whatever (I'd suggest Elephant Rounds)

[jagged oasis]

this is the first week i've done a deep dive in a VERY long time (since i've been getting my friend group into the game and they just now promoted) and god this was suffering

neither of them have any overclocks because they're freshly promoted so we just died to endless waves of acid spitters because holy hell Duck and Cover spawns SO MANY

blood sugar also definitely did not help

[mystic horizon]

a competent gunner this time around is

extremely nice

on my run the gunner was keeping the swarm of acid spitters at bay with bullet hell

engie and driller are also nice if they can set up holds or emergency bunkies

scout just has to work overtime fetching all the nitra and shooting down macteras + septic

[fresh robin]

As a gunner main, arguably Bullet Hell is like one of the best overclocks to deal with a Duck and Cover

[brittle sand]

How dyk which one itll be if I go EDD or is it just randomized

[eager atlas]

that's the difficulty for each stage

[novel shale]

^

stage 1, stage 2, stage 3

[fresh robin]

Well in a Duck and Cover, a lot of the enemies you face are...well...on the ceiling, and they dont usually come to you where you can easily deal with them.
With Bullet Hell, you can easily fight off those spitters, also quite good on a crowd of them (your secondary could be for HVTs or extra firepower against spitters) and might be good enough for mactera spawns as well, be sure to use armor break for the minigun as well to deal with those acid spitters.

Hellfire

I'm sure you'll have teammates that can deal well with the mactera swarm, hell maybe just the scout can kite and throw a cryo nade

[crimson drift]

Yes, two gunners had to carry me because being a driller in that part of the deep dive was hell

[crimson drift]

nope, sticky flame

but it would have been useful for me to use that one

[worthy grail]

Wow…just wow. This deep dive SUCKS

[crimson drift]

I want to see the devs playing it

[buoyant gulch]

they need to know our pain

[worthy grail]

I had the funniest thing happen and no one will believe

I finished the first phase

And literally said

“Damn at least it wasn’t elimination with shield disruption or some BS like that”

You can imagine my reaction when I saw the next mission

[nova pebble]

Worst deep dive ever

[verbal echo]

Elite stage 3 is lowkey insane. There's like 15 acid spitters present at all times. 0_0

[crimson drift]

Hahahaha exactly

[quartz karma]

whole team was down to spitters at the end for so long haha, my sprint broke and somehow i lived

[flint widget]

Escort
Haz 5.5
Duck n' cover

By Karl

[muted portal]

what dreads are in second stage on normal deep dive?

[mellow cradle]

check pins

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
We are hearing rumors that some dwarves are still not done with this weeks Deep Dives!
We want to remind you that there's only half a week left until our scanners pick up new missions!
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[tulip badge]

wow I love 7 barrage infectors in the spawn room on elite deep dive

I love them somehow getting the shot off even tho I froze them!!!

I was probably like 1 frame too late, but visibly it just looked like a frozen barrage just shotgun insta killed me

[long matrix]

could be worse

could be an arbalest

[drowsy solstice]

aight DD was fairly easy, no knocks.

looks at the elite deep dive surely things are about the same-

oh

oh I understand the salt now

[cunning pendant]

Edd wasn't too bad

We had a driller ragequit but still got it done... although with like 43 revives

[rustic lava]

Hello!

How's elite deep dive?

[nova tundra]

Well theres mixed feelings and opinions my experience was it was relatively easy granted i had a good team of randoms, the other opinion/experience seems to be ”fuck this deep dive”

[rustic lava]

I am playing EDD since yesterday. hahahha

My head hurts

I joined on a random EDD but I can't reconnect when I got disconnected.

[rocky ridge]

3rd stage of EDD this week kind of rough

[glossy prism]

Elite Dive Dysfunction

[rocky ridge]

Though by sheer luck Betsy spawn on my run and it's so valuable getting all that sneaky ranged away

[jovial fossil]

guys lets go deep dive)

[muted turtle]

How dares you ask to do Deep Dive in the Deep Dive channel! Send him to Hoxxe's core!

[jovial fossil]

umm

Isn't that what this chat is for?

[muted turtle]

I am just joking

No need to get scared

Yet

[jovial fossil]

ok 🙂

[jovial fossil]

oh

i got it

but I don't see any dwarves ready to dive

[muted turtle]

You could go to one of the LFG channels to see if you can find someone to join in your deep dive

[humble reef]

this edd is insane rip

me (300 driller) and friend (30 scout) failed our two attempts with public lobbies in the first phase, even after fixing his build

i probs should've focused more single target dps on driller's secondary but idk collette seemed really important for 3rd phase

looking back, for sabotage, my build didn't do that much damage to the boss but worked fine against everything else, probs should've bombed the boss sooner and made the arena/tunnels a lot better

any thoughts for passing the first phase as driller?

[main topaz]

drop c4 on caretaker and pray your team shoots eye

as always

you can tcf blast the eyes from your hidey hole if you angle it properly too

[humble reef]

oh i cant post screenshots welp

ah well

okay i just finished it with dual gunner/engi/scout

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1st/2nd attempt s01 fail thoughts(scout/engi/driller/gunner):

seems like our first two attempts failed because we put too much burden on scout to deal with macteras and you don't need wave clear/slows which our first two attempts too many roles had (gunner in first two attempts was using autocannon without neurotoxin for some reason)

no-one could really deal steady single target dps except our scout or engi (if they weren't also going down)

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third attempt win thoughts (2x gunner/engi/scout)

this one went really well because both me (gunner) and 2nd gunner can dps carry and alternate shields. i was running aggresive venting minigun and triple coil railgun with fear, so that literally quite enabled me to control waves. other gunner just went dps(?): minigun with lead storm and burn, bulldog with magic bullets and neurotoxin.

we had to remind the engi multiple times to roof our heads (this is vitally important).

source of armor breaking is hella important, scout had that on his gk2 and engi on voltaic

engi can kinda run anything i feel except shotgun. he had extra ammo for plats which worked out

my third group was a lot more skilled though and was communicative of our builds, so that could be the other reason we won lol

level distribution on losing 1st/2nd was like 300/30/100/50 and 300/30/600/30

winning 3rd was 300/700/170/150

if anyones interested idm sharing the build

[main topaz]

cooking

[vague lantern]

i had to solo it because i'm on vacation and the wifi is awful ;-;

in terms of soloing it, i could only think of one build that can even hope to defend on stage 3

it was bullet hell with cold as the grave instead of aggressive venting

i also took lead spray for big enemies and bosses

[next blaze]

pretty much anything that's "shoot in this direction and everything there dies" can work well for it, especially if you catch the spitter packs right as they're spawning

like, using carpet bomber with max aoe mods, even though I didn't have the accuracy mod, I was still able to pick off web/acid spitters on the ceiling pretty easily

or a generic shard diffractor aoe build or something

[long matrix]

can confirm, shard diffractor bae

[drowsy solstice]

this EDD run was for WaffleFeather, who DC'd at the final stage

if ur out there, we finished the run in your name

RIP Waffle, the best gunner a dwarf could have

fuck that edd tho

[crimson drift]

Can you make a guide like this on the next deep dive, it would be very useful

[humble reef]

it's late now, but i feel it was kinda just a low level diff too i had, it matters a lot what my engi is doing when i was a driller and people having good target priority.

my scout friend i think needed more practice. though maybe im deflecting too hard rn.

i did feel my flamethrower use was inefficient as heck when i played this edd

[wraith shard]

Build of an engineer can indeed make or break their team. For sthe primary electrochemical rounds/ECR is very strong for swarm clear and against duck and cover. Stubby electromagnetic discharge/EMD is very strong for defending the hackbots and the doretta, you can manipulate bug pathing with repellant additive so they run straight into the EMD explosions.
Stock breach itself is stupid strong, roll control turns it i to a aoe stun machine that also hits quite hard. Volatile impact reactor/VIR is both great for swarm clear and single target damage, you can induce electricity with stubby/Lok-1 and dish out decent damage with hydrogen rupturing

[dusky crystal]

greetings. just so im sure, was it that engis turrets gets refilled when going to a new stage?

[eager atlas]

that was fixed back in... either this february or october last year, don't quite remember

[novel shale]

it was whatever is in the 4th slot for each dwarf (c4, turrets etc) but that got fixed

[dusky crystal]

ah understandable, thank you

[vague lantern]

it no longer refills, but i have seen it sometimes bug out a bit and show that it's been refilled until you select or put down a turret and it goes back to what it was before

[glossy prism]

Just promoted for the first time ever, anything worrying I need to keep my eyes out for when i try to get into my first deep dive later tonight?

[burnt sandal]

not really

[exotic belfry]

If you want to see the objective and warnings (if any) of each stage check pinned.

[humble reef]

yeah ngl good repellant plat placement is far more important than their placing or refilling turrets i think people understand

[crystal rampart]

is EDD better than DD?

whats even the difference?is it worth the frustration?

[burnt sandal]

• difficulty
• it's another set of reward so depends entirely on you

[crystal rampart]

set of reward?

[burnt sandal]

yes

[crystal rampart]

example?

more than a core?

[burnt sandal]

Completing each mission of a Deep Dive will grant the player a reward as listed below:

Mission 1: One Blank Matrix core (used for Machine Events)
Mission 2: One random Weapon Overclock Matrix Core
Mission 3: One random Cosmetic Matrix Core

Both variants of the Deep Dive will provide the same mission rewards from the same reward pool. Each mission reward can only be received once per variant, totaling six rewards every week.

[raven carbon]

If you're a new player skip this week's EDD unless you have a really good team carrying

[crystal rampart]

this week EDD was terrible

ive been playing since october

[burnt sandal]

people say that almost every week tbh

[raven carbon]

Not really last couple of weeks were easy

[crystal rampart]

EDD was like unfair rn
but last time i finished it with a good team
now its unwinnable

[raven carbon]

The difficulty spikes vary depending on the warnings and the stage where they appear with the mission combination

Last week was easier than average this week was harder than average

[crystal rampart]

i can definitely see that

[lyric veldt]

im doing a deep dive and im on my last life, could someone come join me?

[drowsy solstice]

the sole saving grace of that EDD was the jet boots on the final stage

without those I might have kermited

esp with the drop pod being AT THE VERY TOP OF THE FUEL UP ROOM

but I will say my one saving grace was me covering the hole on Stage 2 with plats in preparation for the naut fight

and probably pissing off the bugs pathing something fierce

I wish I had taken a screenshot of it, twas art

[humble reef]

glad to hear jet boots was good use for you, i suck at using them lol and keep falling even at level 300

the amount of times i fell in the second room in s03 lol

[fickle charm]

ok so i just unlocked deep dives so quick question

what is a deep dive lol

i'm just gonna go and do one and see what it's like

solo lol

[old widget]

Good overview on the wiki:

https://deeprockgalactic.wiki.gg/wiki/Deep_Dives

Basically, it’s another way to get weapon overclocks and cosmetics (the other way being the Weekly Core Hunt)

[fickle charm]

oh boy i got 1 mule up and running so far lol

it's been 10 minutes

the button on the mule to send the mules back to the drop pod hasn't appeared

doing the refinery part while i wait

and now the buttons there

[raven carbon]

Deep dives can't be joined in the middle

[raven carbon]

See the pinned message in the channel it has good information

[fickle charm]

SHUCKS i died

rip

[humble reef]

they can last maybe an hour usually? so plan that ahead

[old widget]

heh, just jumped in to this EDD with some randos, I do have to say this one's a bit spicier than the average EDD

my poor team of misfits didn't even make it out of the drop room in stage 3 once the first wave of 30 spitters spawned

[vague lantern]

the third stage wasn't bad for me until the ommoran heartstone, and the refueling went smoothly since there was enough oil shale on the floor to fill both tanks

the scalebramble never even got los on me

i do wonder what was up there, but i refused to spend time on my solo edd to find out

ok tbf it wasn't bad because i was running bullet hell

[teal river]

I'm going into my first deep dive ever! :D

Solo-

I have awful internet so I'm not burdening any lobbies, so wish me luck

[teal river]

1/3 Done, pretty smooth!

Dreadnoughts with shield disruption is gonna be something-

[teal river]

someone beam the location of the last mini mule into my brain

[nova pebble]

how much longer for this dd again

i just wanna play a new dd

[teal river]

I finished it in ~1.5 hours, solo and first timer c:

so def less than that

Raw Dogged a Deep Dive,
No overclocks
No teammates
No experience
No revives

:D

[tame idol]

i soloed as far as i could in both DD and EDD and i think it was fine, died at the omaran heartstone tho

but dont really care about cosmetic stuff anyway

[plush drum]

I couldn't complete my 1st deep dive mission cause wouldn't allow me to uplink. was liquid morklite and 3 mule repair got the 3 mules and too the drop pod but drop pod wouldnt allow up link so had to abort

[mellow cradle]

you must complete all other objectives before the game will let you do uplink

[plush drum]

the mules wer reapirs and the pump jack came down but can't connect the pumpjack there nothign to connect to

[mellow cradle]

a mobile refinery drops down

[plush drum]

one didn't it seemd

but guess i'll try again later

[mellow cradle]

laser pointer is your friend
it would have shown it's outlines if you had it pulled out

[plush drum]

it didn't also didn;t show on the map where the moblie refinery was ether

[final urchin]

It might dropped somewhere far away, mission control has a bad aim

I once had it dropped behind a wall in another room, had to dig thru it

[plush drum]

notably was a duck and cover with blood fever

[final urchin]

Worst combination xd

[plush drum]

right

[final urchin]

But gotta deal with it

[mellow cradle]

ah, it was that deep dive

I remember we had to build a platform bridge from the mobile refinery to the pumpjack

but objective spawn might very slightly between game to game

[manic pivot]

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Planet scanning is now booting up, 24 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[cold kindle]

Can't wait for double duck and cover DD and triple duck and cover EDD

[plain matrix]

both of them have industrial sabo and escort

[humble reef]

you know, unironically, i wouldn't mind another one

just not industrial sabo

[buoyant crescent]

Is it possible for a DD to have the same 3 missions and sub mission in a row

I remember a couple weeks back we had the same mission and secondary mission for stage 1 and 3

[burnt sandal]

no

[vague lantern]

i remember that one, it was a straightforward edd but a bit difficult in that the team had to be good at killing bugs

[humble reef]

statistically nigh impossible or just hard coded not to? just curious sorry

[burnt sandal]

hard coded not to

[humble reef]

interesting, thanks for responding!

[raven carbon]

You missed it

It can drop in a different cave

That's why the uplink was blocked

For objectives that end the mission you can't start until the others are complete

Like on site refining or uplink

[next blaze]

I still really enjoy sabo, it's much more interesting than dreadnought objectives to me

this one was even kind of a freebie since it was the very first mission, I like when they're on the 2nd or 3rd to ramp up the stakes

[humble reef]

i can see why yeah, there's undoubtedly going to be some preference

some people i see hate eggs or it seems to pop up when i ask if i can rush them

i just love the hordes

[safe leaf]

I like egg missions

If I want to just chill I can go as methodically as I want to with them, but for regular DDs on overkill builds with a good squad we can just pop them in rapid succession for a bit of a challenge

The only problem is if it's high hazard and people start hacking at the eggs each with reckless abandon

[nova tundra]

8 egg mission with dread duck&cover+ low oxygen, 3 dreads bloodsugar low gravity, 400 morkite swarmagedon shield disruption would be funny

Bet that would break so many people mentally including me

[chilly shore]

forgot about ebonite drillevator

[light mason]

3 dreads bloodsurgar. I go through THAT on haz5+ last week, Mace u are menace

[safe leaf]

10-aquarq Point Extraction, LowO2+Haunted

Industrial Sabotage in Magma Core with Exploder Infestation and Shield Disruption

On-Site Refining with Mactera Plague and Elite Threat, in Fungus Bogs

Escort Duty with Low Gravity and Cave Leech Cluster in Dense Biozone

Lethal Enemies Swarmageddon in Glacial Strata, with cavegen having many ice vents and no warmth oasis

[manic pivot]

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Planet scanning is still in progress, 12 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[fickle charm]

ok then i don't have much time to try this deep dive again

so far even part 1 is WAY too much for me

idk if i've got a chance y'all

[mellow cradle]

normal dive?

[fickle charm]

yeah

[mellow cradle]

well the first stage is annoying

and I guess if you play haz 3 then duck and cover on haz 3 can be hard

[fickle charm]

first time i've dealt with low blood sugar and then haz 3 duck and cover at the same time

low blood sugar isn't bad

helps a bit if you can kill the ranged enemies

biggest challenge to me is the septic spewers because they keep sniping me and then i can't get them back

[mellow cradle]

yes, septics on salvage are annoying, especially if you don't have a scout on your team who goes outside of the bubble to kill them

[fickle charm]

i am the scout on my team

i am also my team (have been trying to solo it)

which is proving to be a mistake

[mellow cradle]

yeah, stepping out of the zone means losing progress in this case

so you have to tough it out

[fickle charm]

first attempt with a team we got it

lessgo

and the overclock that i got is for a character i've never used 😭

[eager atlas]

Time to use it then

[fickle charm]

apparently it's a really shit overclock for driller lmao

[eager atlas]

the only shit overclock is the one that's never used!

and the burst fire thing for the gk

[lusty oar]

i've heard it's so bad

[lone palm]

That deep dive lived up to its name, it really was a let-down

[lusty oar]

lol

[vestal sapphire]

What is it

[manic pivot]

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New Deep Dives will be available in one hour!
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[manic pivot]

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New Deep Dives are now available!
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[drifting tinsel]

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2024 November 14 to 2024 November 21 (Week 269)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1732186800:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Sandblasted Corridors | Code Name: Foggy Crosscut
Stage 1: 7 Aquarqs + 2 Resonance Crystals | Swarmageddon
Stage 2: On-Site Refining + 2 Resonance Crystals | No Mutator
Stage 3: 250 Morkite + Liquid Morkite Well | Duck and Cover

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Magma Core | Code Name: Fragile Gods
Stage 1: 3 Resonance Crystals & Drillevator + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | Volatile Guts Duck and Cover
Stage 2: 6 Eggs + Black Box | Exploder Infestation
Stage 3: 2 Dreadnoughts (Twins & Classic) + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | Mactera Plague

[candid thorn]

FIVE minutes after they came out

damn

[glass arch]

EDD Stage 3 🗿

[sharp cradle]

Has there been a single DD/EDD without Duck and Cover since it came out?

[weak siren]

the curse...

I think this DD is going to be good

pretty easy sounding

[zenith ember]

2nd stage is harder than the other 2 for me

got a betc in 2nd, nemesis in 3rd

[weak siren]

in the DD or EDD?

[zenith ember]

edd

[weak siren]

ah

good for me then

(I will never do anything on magma core ever again🥹 )

[final urchin]

I guess bring lots of ammo and area denial for DD

I haven't done it

[final urchin]

The devs are pretty proud of this one

[burnt sandal]

it's random

[final urchin]

oh

[drowsy solstice]

yeah this set of DD's doesen't look too bad

certainly compared to last week

EDD's stage 2 is where im worried though

black box defence with explo infestation aint gonna be fun

[cloud tide]

At least explos can chain react

[cold kindle]

BLOODY HELL NOT AGAIN

After a short break

1 bloody week without duck and cover

That damn warning is back

And brutal

[cold kindle]

2 weeks ago,on halloween

23 oct. - 31 oct.

[cold kindle]

Looks like it's cryo time

[old widget]

"that's my secret, scout. it's always cryo time"

[golden radish]

Duck and cover curse hits hard.

[buoyant gulch]

when was the last time we didnt have duck n cover in a deep dive

[tall relic]

Idk if I should take snowball for stage 3 Mac plague

Freezing the Dreads is gonna be a lot harder than if I took ite so idk if it's worth

[mellow cradle]

well snowball will also be good for duck and cover in stage 1

[tall relic]

Ah true

Does snowball have good range? I haven't used it much

But I see how it could be good for those massive Acid Spitter clumps

[mellow cradle]

as for freezing dreads, snowball has only an ammo penalty and a repressure penalty

so it's not bad

and using R stops the dread from heating up for a bit

[tall relic]

Right, I just have a harder time freezing Dreads without the extended firing period from ite

[mellow cradle]

you do take tier 1 A, right?

[tall relic]

Ah shit I usually do 1B because I switch weapons frequently

But I'll switch to 1A for this EDD

[mellow cradle]

methinks a tripled magsize is better

also remember to use cold radiance when freezing dreads
but you probably know that

[tall relic]

Yes ofc

Ok I think I'll do 12232 snowball cryo with 22222 persistent plasma epc

I'll try to rely on persistent plasma for smaller swarms since I'll have less cryo ammo

[vague lantern]

i wonder what the devs would have to say about the almost perfect duck and cover track record for deep dives

[tall relic]

Last week was my first season 5 EDD I didn't realize how bad it was 💀

[vague lantern]

duck and cover isn't always that bad, but last week's edd was the perfect map to maximise duck and cover pain

[mellow cradle]

why flowrate on snowball?

cold radiance procs per second, not per fuel spent

and I'd say you also don't need range, because you are running snowball already, but I guess you want that if you want to hold m1 at mactera or spitters, so that's understandable

[tall relic]

I don't find faster pressure gain to be useful at all, at least for my playstyle

[vague lantern]

snowball is good with ammo and respressurization speed

cold radiance too just because it's cold radiance

[tall relic]

I've never been in a situation where I wasn't able to fire the gun (except for freezing Dreads)

By the time I'm done drilling frozen enemies or firing TCF shots, the the pressure chamber is usually fully refilled

[mellow cradle]

if you want to freeze dreads, you won't be able to hold m1 all the time, and the faster pressure gain will let you "reload" more in that time where you are not shooting

also, flow rate is kind of like a downgrade

because most of your freezing power comes from cold rad

and flow rate decreases your total time of cold radiance

[tall relic]

Isn't it still helpful for freezing large enemies like Oppressors though?

I assumed faster fire rate = faster single target freeze

But correct me if I'm wrong

[mellow cradle]

without flow rate mod, and with base freezing power, you apply 48 cold per second
with the flow rate mod, you apply 60.8 cold per second, so you gain 12.8 cold per second
if we account cold radiance into this, you apply 108 cold total without flow rate, and 120.8 with, so you gained 11.8% more cold per second, all the while spending 12.6% more ammo per second

and stuff like grunts only have a freeze point of -30, and praets -150

[tall relic]

Ah ok I see

So it only rly makes a difference against Oppressors, Bulks, and Dreads

and it's slightly less ammo efficient

Damn I love freezing Oppressors quick but ig it's probably not worth since you're spending a lot more time freezing Grunts

I'll try swapping it out and see how it goes

[tall relic]

This is a great point too

[tall relic]

I think range will be super helpful for stage 1

[mellow cradle]

yeah

[tall relic]

Cryo kills Web Spitters quick

[mellow cradle]

taking range is understandable in the context of this EDD

[tall relic]

I also like taking range normally to help deal with Spitballers and Mactera when I don't have snowball

[tall relic]

Do you think increased flow rate would be worth taking on elite threat missions with how difficult it is to freeze elite enemies?

[mellow cradle]

idk, I don't take cryo then
prefer sludge or crispr who have immedaitely avalible slowdowns
especially sludge

[vague lantern]

with elite threat, the sludge pump is the most viable option due to elite enemies having no real resistance to the sludge

the crispr and cryo cannon work on everything else well though, but elite enemies are just too hard to stop with fire and ice

god help you if an elite slasher hits your face

[humble reef]

Bruh these edd modifiers LOL, well looking towards trying it maybe tonight

[fickle charm]

ngl this regular deep dive sounds easy

maybe i try it in a bit

[humble reef]

guess ill use gunner neurotoxin payload and ttc/hellfire coilgun or engineer because ive had too many people not use repel plats

[vestal sapphire]

Ammo good
Thinking bad

Not sorry

[humble reef]

true lol, im def overthinking it

[mellow cradle]

guess you'll have to rely on your team for dreads

[humble reef]

dreads don't seem to be too bad, it's going to be the ||mactera plague|| modifier out to kill them

[vague lantern]

you may want to run lead spray with that just for the dreadnought

unless you can count on your team to do damage

[humble reef]

i'll see what my team is like or bumping up my minimum level reqs for a lobby

im usually playing with level 50's and need to assist in peoples' roles

[fickle charm]

i got another freakin driller overclock lol

[mellow cradle]

the game is trying to tell you something

[fresh robin]

A driller running Cryp would be a big help for this EDD
I might have to use Carpet Bomber again

[long matrix]

you can with the cryo's magazine upgrade

"basically"

and if you get the refill faster upgrade you have basically zero downtime since you can refreeze faster than the dread cools indefinitely

[humble reef]

won an edd after our gunner tilted scout into leaving by saying s02 has ||leeches and bet-c near each other|| and doing a gotcha moment, i hate playing with random people sometimes

they [gunner] died like 15 times in our edd

i wasn't even mad at out scout for dying that way but gunner forced us to almost lose and almost die each time macteras came because we had no scout

i hate targetting hvt's with my refire stubby except in tunnels man...

im surprised my driller host didn't end up kicking them

sorry rant over

[mystic horizon]

hows the EDD

[humble reef]

it was a lot easier than last week's imo

but still very difficult red modifiers if you don't build towards them

[dense arrow]

i cleared last weeks first try

this week i got cooked by leeches twice

xd

[humble reef]

oh god it took last week 3 tries for me, this week was first try

[dense arrow]

tbf my team was just goated with the sauce last week

i can admit i got carried by my goats

god speed to those unknown miners

[dense arrow]

dude i feel so useless whenever i play driller and its duck and cover

its fucked

i cant hit anything

[zenith ember]

yeah thats normal

at least it isnt sandblasted

[burnt sandal]

use subata and/or pick range upgrades on your weapons

[alpine reef]

Fuel stream diffuser or ag mixture are good ones if you have them to help alleviate that problem

Wave cooker with gamma contamination would be a good one too

[raven carbon]

Axes are another option too

[burnt sandal]

axes for duck and cover ?

[mystic horizon]

not sure what all the fuss was about that EDD was pretty easy

maybe the team i joined was just good

[raven carbon]

Along with the other options I mean for emergencies

Smacking a couple of axes reduces the traffic

[mellow cradle]

?

[raven carbon]

Wait this was duck and cover not mactera

My bad

[mellow cradle]

there's kinda too many bugs for that

[raven carbon]

I mixed up the two

[burnt sandal]

that explains the axe suggestions 😄

[mellow cradle]

there's too many mactera in a wave on third stage to axe them all too

[burnt sandal]

though i think HE is better for macteras

especially now that you can cook them

[mellow cradle]

a better idea would be to use stun c4

[burnt sandal]

works too yeah

[raven carbon]

For a newish player cooking and timing might be difficult

Although it could be better I agree

In principle

[fresh robin]

Imma try Big Bertha this EDD

[raven carbon]

Wait wasn't this always possible

[burnt sandal]

no

it got introduced in... s3, I think ?

[raven carbon]

I started playing at the start of s3 so that might fit the timeline

Since I've never seen a non cookable He

[final urchin]

We having microwaved macteras tonight

[fresh robin]

just finished the EDD

I must say I'm extra rusty and I must say that Big Bertha is decent if you use it well

[raven carbon]

Since we had this discussion

Just played the edd

I changed my driller grenade after months

To HE

It was pretty good for all 3 missions actually

Exploders duck and cover and mactera

Axes are so embedded in the mind as default that I hadn't thought of changing them at all

Particularly handy in the black box mission to disable crowds of exploders from the weird black box hill

[burnt sandal]

👌

HE are not the most popular but they're pretty good rn, they got tons and tons of well deserved buffs over the years

the cooking really helped making them a lot easier to use too

[raven carbon]

Cooking is a timing skill like tcf that buffs the weapon a lot

[raven carbon]

They're better than gunner spiky grenades

Also you get 6 that's a big buff

Spiky has a lower skill floor and lower ceiling, HE higher for both

[burnt sandal]

spiky is also not great outside of fear and being easy to use

[raven carbon]

In general I feel fear is counterproductive for weapons to be used at range

Good at shorter range as an emergency to disperse crowds but what can we achieve by pushing away enemies that are already far away

[nova tundra]

HE my beloved

[cerulean harness]

the duck and cover situation is getting out of hand

I've wanted to play pump action in a EDD for many weeks by now but i guess it is lok-1 again

this is getting tiresome

[next blaze]

what's preventing you from doing something like 32112 + efficiency tweaks on the diffractor or 21121/21131 + rj250/compact rounds on the pgl with pump action?

both of those are accurate enough to take out individuals at a distance and can easily blow up full packs when you need them to

[finite onyx]

Whats the layout of the nomal deep dive this time ?

[mellow cradle]

no mean terrain as far as I could tell

we finished it in 32 minutes

[cerulean harness]

I already use shard diffractor, and pump action just doesn't cut it on duck and cover/mactera plague bc of the fire rate

[next blaze]

I forget, pump action can oneshot the mactera, right?

[cerulean harness]

most of the time

again fire rate

[next blaze]

I'd just whip out the shard diffractor and fire till the pack of spitters is all on fire or dead, depending on how threatening they are

[cerulean harness]

you kill just one or two

[next blaze]

haha well that's the norm for big packs of em, what primary would you use to wipe out a ton more at once?

plasma bursters could make quick work of em if you're worried about that

or just chuck drones and focus on dodging

I'm just thinking it seems totally usable in all cases, even if it may not be the fastest option for certain packs of mobs

[cerulean harness]

I already have a loadout that works for these hazard mods. Is it just that this is like the fifth time I can't change it

[next blaze]

by that, you mean you've switched to ECR lok-1 or something for duck and cover?

[cerulean harness]

i'm, not handicapping myself for an edd my friends are pretty bad at the game and my build needs to be on point

[cerulean harness]

executioner works pretty well

[next blaze]

oh whoa, I wasn't expecting that at all

well whatever works for you, I just think pump action with some aoe-based diffractor or fire rj250 build is a very comfy build even for this EDD

no handicap at all either, if you're comfortable using it

it just sounded like you were frustrated with being forced to use the lok-1 even though I feel like pump action is just fine there

[cerulean harness]

it isn't a big deal really is just that what are the chances of getting duck and cover in every edd since the release of the season

[next blaze]

yeeee it's a crazy mod!

[cerulean harness]

is a good mod but is getting old

[next blaze]

have you ever tried fire+stun on rj250 by chance though??

[cerulean harness]

I like the rock guys and red sugar too, what happened to them?

[next blaze]

it's legitimately really entertaining to play, and it locks down mactera/spitter packs so well too

haha feels like EDDs always have long streaks of certain things

there was that time where we had like 5 sabotages in a row following their release

[cerulean harness]

is not horrible but it is somewhat weak

[cerulean harness]

oh god

[next blaze]

yeah it's slow for sure, but I like how it's a fire-and-forget option like gunner's fear neurotoxin build

last EDD with duck and cover on dotty, I spent the last phase just running around firing pgl shots at whoever I could find

they'd go down eventually as long as I could light them on fire

[mellow cradle]

I played this EDD with executioner and roll controll

worked very well

[cerulean harness]

I'm surprised they haven't added a Molotov-like oc to the PGL

[next blaze]

I'm not good with executioner haha, it's never as efficient as I want it to be since I'm not good at hitting weakpoints with it

oho that'd be cool

[cerulean harness]

maybe you're right i'll try the pgl it should work on paper

[next blaze]

half the enjoyment from the game is messing with different builds and seeing where they excel imo!

[mellow cradle]

it's impossible to one hit kill an acid spitter with rj #drg-chat message

[next blaze]

oh really!

[burnt sandal]

if you take damage mods, maybe

and if you get lucky heat propagation

[next blaze]

hm I wonder how effective heat spread is with it then

like surely, if you catch 3-4 next to each other, it'll extend the duration long enough?

[mellow cradle]

maybe

[mellow cradle]

you'd have to take two

[burnt sandal]

it's gonna be pretty RNG dependent either way

[mellow cradle]

which is uhhh

[next blaze]

I suppose you have your turrets too, I didn't recall it being a huge issue

[burnt sandal]

hence the plural

[mellow cradle]

well yeah, the acid spitter is gonna have like 20 hp left

[next blaze]

hah I have to admit though, apparently I was running mini shells with the fire rj250 build

that makes more sense, spamming shots to take out whoever didn't burn down fully

dang, the only duck and cover running right now has volatile guts too

[cerulean harness]

do you like.. not killin' what ya' shottin'?

[next blaze]

mini shells are great!

they used to be beloved, last few opinions I've seen on em is that they're bad for some reason

most total damage you can get out of an engi primary barring stuff like efficient aoe shock stubby

you just get a big magazine and good fire rate and then just spam all day

[next blaze]

so uhhh it wasn't really a stress test since my team was so good, but yeah pump action + fire rj250 felt just fine #deep-dive-speedrunning message

went down twice to mactera cause my back was to em 😠

[humble reef]

just play in tunnels, it'll be fine

well except my team that insist fighting duck and cover in the centre of the room

[teal river]

Doing my first elite deep dive!

solo again

quite a bit harder already

[humble reef]

oh--good luck, im sure there's a lot of people down to help if you'd like as well

[inner flint]

duck and cover with drillevator

sigh

[glass kindle]

Can someone give me a summary of deep dives so if I try to do one I know what I'm diving head first into

[burnt sandal]

https://deeprockgalactic.wiki.gg/wiki/Deep_Dives

[glass kindle]

That'll work

[teal river]

holy moly Elite DDs are hard

[flint widget]

as usual

stage 2 is the most painful in every EDD

[teal river]

The Bet-C is placed so inconviently mannnn

[flint widget]

right below a leech lol

doing both dives in a row is tiring

[exotic belfry]

Or see pinned, there's a short guide

[teal river]

SOLO ELITE DEEP DIVE DONE

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I'M THEM

ITS ME

[exotic belfry]

Rock and Stone! Well done miner!

[sour frigate]

I read that as "Hazard Moths" and that's what Mactera are called now.

[teal river]

They are hazard moths 😌

[teal river]

:DDDDD

[eager atlas]

mothtera

[teal river]

Going into the main room on the second mission of the EDD was hell

A scalebramble is absolutely stationed at the entrance

only 1 of its weakpoints is actually visible from the entrance, but it has full LOS with a Barrage Infector nearby

not to mention the Bet-C with the cave leech right above in the same room

[wary trench]

That second stage of EDD was absurd

[zenith ember]

so i wasnt crazy when i said 2nd stage was harder than the other 2

[teal river]

Oh no you were 1000% right XD

That was insane

I mean the mactera swarms weren't fun but they were doable, comepared to that second stage

[royal spoke]

What would yall recommend for a scout for this weeks EDD?

[burnt sandal]

solo ?

[royal spoke]

With an engineer

[royal spoke]

Who's running VIR and ECR

[woeful pivot]

both guns kinda require your attention

[teal river]

god

If it helps the missions are:

Deepscan / Mini-mules
Egg hunt / Blackbox
Dreadnought / Mini-mules

I'd massively recommend good crowd control -that part is mainly for engi- and quick elim for glass canon high value targets. The amount of septic spitters in 1 and 2 and Mactera in numbers 2 and 3 are not even funny, and stage one is packed with an absurd amount of acid spitters

Be very careful on the second mission -its absurd. The main room housing all the eggs and the black box is lethal. There's a Bet-C in that room, make sure you don't trigger it before you take out the cave leech, Sbramble and Barrage Infector surrounding it. I'd recommend spowder just because of the movement and mobility; with two mules, an egg hunt and a deepscan being able to get where you need to go quickly will save you a lot of grief. for primary just go for any long range quick threat takedown.

Make sure your engi is running gemini turrets and shredder drones. The second mission is an exploder swarm so you want them to be able to spread as much quick and easy damage around as many targets as possible

[royal spoke]

Thank you so much

[teal river]

Rock and Stone miner

I'd love to hear how you guys do, good luck

[humble sage]

My favorite part was the opening sequence of stage 1 where you're absolutely gunned down as soon as you leave pod 😂

[royal spoke]

Okay soooo

We fucked up on Stage 2

We got the eggs and all but the blackbox was our issue

[teal river]

The spot is pretty annoying to defend, I'd def recommend doing it first and getting your engi to make good use of the bug repellant

without it protecting that spot is basically impossible, exploders can just climb up from the rim below you and the first time you'll see them is when they're literally right next to you

[humble reef]

yeah did the edd twice now, second time was carrying two of my greenbeard friends. ||we lured the combat mule to spawn before touching anything, cleared the room, then did black box||

we made sure to play either in a tunnel or against the space near the black box when doing the eggs

bug repellant is definitely a must

you may also need to let your teammates know not to stand near the platform ledge (or also stack platforms underneath or extend them)

think engi is the best solo carry for this edd* (assuming everyone does their role at least half well, iI was 350 engi in vc with 30 scout/30 driller and a non-vc random 400 gunner)

[teal river]

Engi is def the MVP for this EDD

And heyyy, 30 isn't low, I'm a 30 😌

XD

[humble reef]

mb sorry, that's amazing if you solo'd it that way

[hollow gazelle]

what your opinion on the current sandblasted corridors deep dive with the guaranteed nemisis

[mellow cradle]

I didn't get a nemesis

[hollow gazelle]

i have gotten one every time and ive done it 12 times always at the end

[old widget]

Different player counts can cause that IME

[teal river]

no offence taken, and thank you >:D

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
We are hearing rumors that some dwarves are still not done with this weeks Deep Dives!
We want to remind you that there's only half a week left until our scanners pick up new missions!
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[eager atlas]

if you're solo you can actually laser point the suckers and bosco will kill them, very slowly

aside of that, it's just a betsy, dodge and kill the suckers, prioritize dodging

[humble reef]

main thing i do is play a mid-long distance hugging a wall/corner to take cover with

i never approach when the shield goes up because you can't(?) react-avoid the bombs up close at haz 5

if it's pointing at me with its hip laser sight, i just take cover

good rule of thumb, if a spot is out of LOS, it's probs not bombamble either

my team on my second edd (already won one) baited the mule towards the adjacent-tunnel, much better to fight it there or at spawn

like after killing obvious stationaries

[teal river]

Make sure you either kill the leech and other cave dwellers around it before you engage, or lure it out. As an Engi a Lok-1 is really good against it as you get locks, dive back into cover then curve and fire. Playing cover against Bet-C is so so important like Quoise said. it can shred you insanely quickly but has relatively slow and poor movement.

In that room is a Scalebramble, cave leech and barrage infector; I'd really reccomend killing them all before activating the Bet-C

[rocky ridge]

No nemesis, everything goes very smoothly

Well, too quite even with duck n cover warning

[tacit iris]

EDD is pretty fun this week, stage 2 was the only challenging one

If you’re going gunner, consider bringing the mole

Makes clearing the initial spawns a lot easier

[weary walrus]

What beer for the EDD?

[austere plume]

Am I the only one who got a nemesis in the EDD stage 2 ? Got it instead of the Bet C

[blissful breach]

was it harder?

[dense arrow]

nemesis is fucked up

also the edd this time around is hard asf imo

molten core moment

[raven carbon]

Nemesis is worse than betc in general. You don't get any reward for the ammo spent v

[nova tundra]

Nemesis is easy af if you happen to have a engineer running inferno breach cutter

[chilly shore]

nemesis is way easier to kill than betc

just shoot giant slow target for a while and occasionally press s
same strategy against betc would get you killed like 38 times

[whole frigate]

Nemesis really only pose a challenge if you're in narrow caves. Other than that, it's just keep distance and wear him down.

[tiny dagger]

i prefer nemesis over having my teammates repair betc and have her kill me over and over again

[humble reef]

bet-c does 5% damage in friendly fire iirc

but yeah it's still a lot tbh

sometimes

[chilly shore]

betc also pushes you off cliffs and into exploders, she is a villain fr

[chilly shore]

she's nefarious

[teal river]

how far have you gotten? c:

[humble sage]

Yeah stage 2 super hard. We got killed on stage 3 (after already dying on stage 2 twice) due to an earthquake plus something I don't remember.

[humble reef]

learned earthquakes can detonate those explosive mushrooms this edd

[jolly wing]

I almost done phase 2 with my random mates where i somehow had 0 deaths.
Unfortunately, my power died and my teammates were all down at that time

Big sad

[drowsy solstice]

I dont want to run the EDD anymore

had back to back throws cuz people do not know how to play around betc

[teal river]

yeah, it is a real rough one

[sullen tundra]

can you get rewards from deep dives multiple times?

[silver swift]

Nope

[narrow oak]

credits

15-17k per deep dive

[pliant nymph]

What is the strategy for a high hazard Bet C?

[teal river]

@pliant nymph ^

Also what Qouise said about cover

Good luck miner, rock and stone

[jolly wing]

Flat area and always move in a circular motion

And keep distance

Usually the vulcan guns is what kills me

Methinks lure it towards spawn?

The terrain in the main room looks awful IMO

[verbal locust]

do deep dives give better loot/xp than the regular bundle of missions?

and do i need a team already in place? like i can’t que for one

[jolly wing]

In deep dives, you only need at least 1 promoted dwarf

Unpromoted dwarves cannot play

You can solo or do teams with DD as you wish

However, they cannot join an ongoing deep dive

With the exception when your mate crashes and reconnect

Typically, you do deep dives only for the matrix core

[verbal locust]

matrix cores that bring a good amount of season xp?

[jolly wing]

Matrix cores to forge overclocks/ cosmetics

[verbal locust]

i’ve only done two deep dives in my hundred~ levels so i apologize for my unfamiliarity

[jolly wing]

No biggie

[verbal locust]

within the rig or during a mission?

[jolly wing]

The forge is near the deep dive terminal

[verbal locust]

i think i’ve unlocked everything i can through assignments so id love a way to get more overclocks that aren’t just unstable or mildly good

[jolly wing]

Deep dives give blank, overclock and cosmetic in stage 1, 2 and 3 respectively

[verbal locust]

stages being each mission?

[jolly wing]

Yes

A stage has 2 objectives.

So that makes 6 objectives in total

[verbal locust]

i see there’s lfg channels for my console but would i have to specifically ask people for deep dives or could i que for it in game?

[verbal locust]

two main objectives? i do like the sound of that

[jolly wing]

Usually you can find matches in the "join" button that's still in the rig

[pliant nymph]

Deep dives are good if you are short on credits.

[trim crescent]

bumrush the fuck out of it

kill it in the first 5 seconds of activation

and dont forget, if you have someone with the capability to freeze then freezing adds the freeze dmg boost to betsy bilsters

the freezing treshold is also very small

[whole seal]

also if it starts doing the shield attack in an open space you can get a ton of free damage in by just rushing in, ive never gotten hit doing it at least when its not in a super enclosed space

[cloud tide]

This weeks EDD wasn’t that bad imo

[whole seal]

yeah, though stage 2 sucks a lot without a scout

[royal spoke]

Without a competent scout. The scout I had died like 7 times JUST to fall damage.

And barely contributed to the EDD. Like I made him platforms and he goes "nooo" and zooms into a different cave.

[old widget]

if scout doesn't break their legs 7 times, are they really scouting?

[humble reef]

TRUE

(no hover boots, no quick recharge pickaxe let's go)

[meager osprey]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-squarepants-fred-fred-my-leg-my-leg-cartoon-gif-21318378

[wispy robin]

i took better AOE

(need to carve the terain better)

[humble reef]

nice that's a good option too

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
Planet scanning is now booting up, 24 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[weak siren]

ima try this deep dive rn

wait what is the difference between private and solo missions?

[whole frigate]

Solo is solo. Privaty is an invite only group. So randos can't just join it

[weak siren]

ah

[tall relic]

I should probably stop taking TCF on magma core missions/deep dives

It's not worth making the terrain an obstacle course

[chilly shore]

it's free repellent

[humble reef]

against my scout

jk

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
Planet scanning is still in progress, 12 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[clear slate]

fuck this stupid ass elite deep dive stage 2

[whole seal]

fuck my chungus life

its pain without a scout

[vague lantern]

i dont know many general tips for high hazard betc's, but i usually try to do this when it has to happen: i try to strafe diagonally from betc to keep an eye on her to see if i'm being targeted, and if i am then do not stop sprinting no matter what if you value your life. also the gunner's shield is great for when betc stops moving for any reason so that the team can hope to go in for easy burst damage with less risk.

i had to solo this edd which was a pain, but i'm not sure if betc gets significantly more dangerous with a full party.

on high hazards, i would place survival over taking betc down quickly because it can be hard to revive someone in betc's los and fewer people means more heat for the remaining teammates.

[pliant nymph]

More players more difficulty, from what I have seen and read in the wiki gg

You can if the cavern the Bet C is in, as engie build platforms above her, then call a resupply down on the platform above her, then break it, to drop on her, though I don’t know if it will one shot on EDD difficulty.

Of course as engie you could try a max damage shard diffractor with overdrive boost on her, adding dazzling lens for the slow.

You can use platforms as cover from her bombs and turret by building them at near head height and you standing under.

[clear slate]

fucks sakes

PC crash first attempt
squad wipe on blackbox second attempt
host lost internet connection third attempt

all on stage 2 of the EDD

this stage is fucking cursed

[pliant nymph]

At least it will be wiped from existence in a few hours time, a new EDD will be here.

[clear slate]

about to give it a 4th try... wish me luck this time

third attempt i asked to do black box first on stage 2 and i actually got past it that time

so that might be the move

[pliant nymph]

Any way to drill it into a bunker then plug the hole with a bunch of platforms, then drill an exit tunnel for the bugs to spawn in?

[humble reef]

our main alternative was keeping exploders away from the black box (no random holes) before we did it, then using repel plats to make bugs come from preferred directions

the ledge it's on is really shitty if you don't properly rout enemies away from it

https://youtu.be/_To1Rw-m26M?t=1529 i do pretty much what moonlightiori did with his plats, but i instead focused more on platting front ledges well (and two under) so bugs came from two sides

timestamp applied

[clear slate]

finally got it 4th attempt

[edgy tartan]

Holy heck, cave #2 EDD is one of the nastiest I've seen

Our entire cave was covered in lava from all the exploders

[teal river]

its rough

[heavy pawn]

So...
Funny thing I noticed when I did both DD's (1st stage of EDD & all of regular DD) a few hours ago was that a spawned on both first stages of both dives.

Of course, both hoarders were basically wasted, considering that I was never going to survive more than the first stage of the EDD, and that I failed to kill the one on the regular DD.

[raven carbon]

You still get rewards for the stages you completed

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives will be available in one hour!
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[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives are now available!
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[thick edge]

can someone send the deep dives here

[mellow cradle]

soon

[thick edge]

ight

[drifting tinsel]

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2024 November 21 to 2024 November 28 (Week 270)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1732791600:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Dense Biozone | Code Name: Insane Killing
Stage 1: 6 Eggs + Black Box | Rich Atmosphere Lethal Enemies
Stage 2: 200 Morkite + 2 Eggs | No Mutator
Stage 3: Industrial Sabotage + 2 Resonance Crystals | Duck and Cover

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Fungus Bogs | Code Name: Fast Earth
Stage 1: 6 Eggs + Black Box | Cave Leech Cluster
Stage 2: 3 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + 2 Resonance Crystals | Exploder Infestation
Stage 3: On-Site Refining + Twins | Duck and Cover

[mellow cradle]

duck and cover, my beloved

[austere plume]

Exploder stage 2 AGAIN with duck and cover again, Hoxxes is a simulation

[thick edge]

oh hell

stage 3 duck and cover is something

[drifting tinsel]

bungus

[mellow cradle]

🅱️ungus 🅱️ogs

[teal river]

My stress filled two hour true solo run:
A slightly sharp rock that decided to go skydiving:

[cold forge]

The duck and cover curse never ends

[maiden matrix]

Atleast it’s not duck and cover escort

[cold kindle]

That

That can't be true

Right?

THis is a joke

Right?

You-you can't be serious

WHAT are the chances of getting that bloody warning on EVERY DEEP DIVE

[drowsy solstice]

Hecc

[cold kindle]

Imagine if devs doing it on purpose

I know deep dives are made by system not by devs themselves but

[tall relic]

I got excited when I saw stage 3 refining + twins

Then I saw the modifier

[rocky ridge]

Duck and cover again

This warning gave me ptsd

[tall relic]

Shouldn't be as bad as the last stage 3 duck and cover tho

Refining doesn't rly have high ceilings

(I don't think)

[rocky ridge]

Hopefully ain't spawning during the fight against the Twin

[tall relic]

Right...

Bugs usually don't

[eager atlas]

just pop the twins at the begining and do the whole mission like that :D

refinery does have a welcome party though

sounds like fun

[plain matrix]

stg if the deep dives after this one have duck and cover at all I might just three point a baby into a lake.

[eager atlas]

baby of the lake, what is your wisdom

[maiden matrix]

How are we feeling about this weeks duck and cover adventure

[cold kindle]

Basically

Haunted cave but you're being haunted by mortal twins

And you have to kill them before starting pump sequence

[wraith shard]

Peak EDD

[hasty hamlet]

i'm getting flashbacks to season 3 when sabotages were put into the DD mission pool with how much duck & cover been showing up this season

[buoyant gulch]

and its the last stage of each deep dive trying to ruin everything

[humble reef]

this last stage of EDD is kinda fucked. won without a repellant engi but i do wonder how much easier it would be to have one tho

[next blaze]

the sheer amount of spitballers and barragers in stage 3 was wild!

[humble reef]

drillers should be running CWC over EPC for damage
engi should props opt for VIR Diffractor over Roll Control Breach Cutter (rooms are way too open)
gunner should focus on having accuracy
scout really needs to bring cryo bolts (they one shot freeze the stationaries)

also pls don't bring temp shock if you're bringing cryo cannon, it only does 200 damage on proc (= two m1000 shots)

better to just leave the 2x freeze damage multiplier for non-temp shock CWC and your teammates

[mellow cradle]

*x3

[humble reef]

ty for the correction ❤️, just double checked you're right it's 3x and then 2.67 for dreadnoughts🔥

probs would rank this edd harder than the last two weeks because of s03 15x stationaries/dedicated builds being required/open rooms with no tunnels on duck and cover

[sharp oar]

I think the first clear of a deep dive and elite deep dive should give double proformas Pass exp for that clear

[iron crypt]

definitely an EDD of all time, that stage 3 packed a serious punch - team being a little disjointed didn't help https://imgur.com/a/41Plz2s

[humble reef]

scout did work, damn

[fresh robin]

first time seeing a scout get more kills than Gunner, then I realized that rank gp between him and Scout

also why does Driller and Engi have a lot of deaths lmfao

[tacit iris]

Could’ve just had a bad time

[iron crypt]

we kinda got bodied hard stage 3 with people sitting on min health chain dying cuz acid spitter hitting min health is one tap for kill, eventually they realized it's acceptable to just resup for health since we had plenty of nitra, and we blasted through stage 3 quickly

[upper dove]

just had a elite bulk detonater on my solo deep dive

[rocky ridge]

Oof

[upper dove]

first mission

[rocky ridge]

During black box ?

[upper dove]

how did you know

[rocky ridge]

Has happened before

But way worse

[upper dove]

yeah good thing i was scout in high atmosphere

[rocky ridge]

Back in 2023 during deep dive, I got 3 bulks spawned during black box recovery, 1 alone and 2 are in pair
What make it worse that the box are in small tunnel

Still traumatize me to this day

[upper dove]

damn

just got another one on my way out

[humble reef]

ive no idea how people are going to do this edd without a cryo bolt scout ngl

[whole seal]

think about it...

[humble reef]

oh my god

[mellow cradle]

with a tef scout

lol lmao

[humble reef]

well nothing beats 4 gunners i suppose, you can quite see acid spitters in the dark anyways

[whole seal]

tef just leaves you 1 weapon short

even if its busted

[humble reef]

TEF immolating the stationaries at S03 seems viable ngl tho

base boltshark with damage mod im pretty sure one shots the both spitter types

[mellow cradle]

it kills them to the body, yes

in one shot

but frankly, not many people run "normal" boltshark primary bolts

[humble reef]

probs better than akimbo or non-shaped shells boomstick for s03 ngl

it's nasty as heck

trying to see if i can get my newbie scout friend to win this edd without me, but he has no OC's unlike me rip

[zenith ember]

Holy downs and time

[rocky ridge]

Currently stage 3 EDD on solo run with Engi using Stubby (i forget the OC name that give it 2 electric damage) + Diffractor (VIR)

[humble reef]

em refire

that's a good build yea tho

gl, it's tough

[rocky ridge]

Lmao the pod land way above

My intrusive thoughts almost win on just running out from the pod directly to refinery or nearest well

Drop directly next to spitballer

[rocky ridge]

I finish it, almost screw it up because I accidentally shot the cocoon during mactera swarm

Three barrages, one spitball one vartok

But is it just me that didn't encounter Oppressor at all during this EDD? Or the others too?

[rocky ridge]

Yes early 3rd stage quite tough indeed, finding and kill the stationary all while dealing with the ranged burn through munitions real quick

[zenith ember]

isolated 3rd pump is heavily guarded

[rocky ridge]

Two barrages behind it

[zenith ember]

I only have 1 around that area

But it so happens to also be the one that blew up the egg while we have 3 members down

So that was fun

[rocky ridge]

Oof that's very rough

[zenith ember]

It was ok during the pump progress, caves's p huge for acid spitters to do much

[rocky ridge]

After the twin dead everything much calmer tbh

Even during the pump started

[zenith ember]

yeah

[rocky ridge]

I down more during 2nd stage

Each unannounced swarm has like 3-4 praetorians